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Mageia

Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux formed in September 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular French Linux distribution. Unlike Mandriva, which is a commercial entity, Mageia is a community project and a non-profit organisation whose goal is to develop a free Linux-based operating system.

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SmartOS

SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9).

Technical Specs Comparison
MageiaSmartOS
IndependentBaseSolaris
dnf, urpmiPackage Managerpkgsrc
systemdInit Systemother
Fixed ReleaseRelease ModelFixed Release
9Latest Version
IntermediateDifficultyIntermediate
August 27, 2023Release DateJune 11, 2026
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64
Architecture
ARM64ARMv7i686x86_64
AwesomeCinnamonGNOMEHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMakerXfceNo Desktop
Desktops
AwesomeCinnamonGNOMEHyprlandi3IceWMKDEMATElabwcLXDELXQtOpenboxSwayWMakerXfceNo Desktop